Thank you to this beautiful little therapy & teaching community I’ve stumbled across that is filled with kind & passionate student & registered OT/SLP/PT/Teachers🥰 I feel blessed to be able to connect with such creative individuals from all over the world & to share/learn new ideas 💭 Let’s continue to support each other to become better therapists/teachers on our mission to serve others 🌈 •

I’ve now hit 7️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ followers but when I first started this blog, I said if I could teach just one person what OT is, I would be happy haha 😅 I’m grateful I have this outlet where I can share my thoughts & make sense of the therapy & disability world 💕 •

“The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. The moment you start being in love with what you’re doing, and thinking it’s beautiful or rich, then you’re in danger.” – Miuccia Prada (Owner, Fashion Designer of Prada) ______________________

"Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Opening Address to the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival #MLKDay

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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." — #MLK •#MartinLutherKing would have turned 90 this week, and his message remains as relevant as ever. Happy Birthday, Dr. King! • Painting by Richard Day

i made this a few weeks ago for someone i wanted to feel better, but i never thought i’d post it. But now i’m running out of premades so I decided to post this whoops (also i have NO idea who these characters are lol, as I said I made this as a lil present) #qotd: do you prefer my graphic edits ir my blended edits?#aotd: I personally prefer my blended ones :\

S L E E P "Sleep when the baby sleeps" sounds blissful in theory. In reality, taking catnaps throughout the day can be a tall order for new moms. Still, there are things you can do to increase the odds of sweet slumber.

1. Lie down, even if you can't sleep. "Get off your feet, relax on the couch, and stay off the phone," says Diana Lynn Barnes, a Los Angeles therapist and president of Postpartum Health International.

Don't stress if you can't fall asleep. "Just lying down for a half hour can be very restorative," she adds.

2. Enlist help for nighttime feedings.

One of the best ways to get a solid stretch of sleep is to have your husband or visitor work the night shift for you. (My mother-in-law was perfect for this job as she lives for the 2 a.m. late-night movie.) It's easier to turn feedings over to someone else if you're bottlefeeding, but moms who are breastfeeding can introduce a bottle of breast milk early on so that someone else can provide relief in the middle of the night. An extra bottle of pumped breast milk can be liquid gold, equal to an extra two or three hours of sleep. Or you can pump at night to have the expressed milk on hand during the day. "If the baby falls asleep after only one breast, I pump the other so that my husband or my mother can feed him in the morning while I get some additional sleep," says Sonia Park, of Brooklyn, New York.

And while breastfeeding moms may assume their bottlefeeding peers are getting more rest, that's not necessarily the case. A 2002 Australian study published in the Journal of Sleep Research found that nursing mothers get more deep sleep -- the type of sleep that heals muscles and repairs the body. Nursing mothers can thank the growth hormone prolactin, which surges during lactation.

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